Microeconomics
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ISBN: 9781260507140
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 18, Problem 7IP
(a)
To determine
Effects of correcting the measured poverty.
(b)
To determine
Fairness of correcting measured poverty.
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